It's sickening how ESPN has been fellating this criminal showboat and calling him "a sure Hall-of-Famer" when he's been indicted for obstructing justice in a DOUBLE MURDER case, while villifying Barry Bonds, who was indicted for obstructing justice in a steroid case.

Football players seem to get a pass for bad off-field behavior. Rothlisberger gets knobjobs constantly from the announcers as did Vick before he went to ****. Donte Stallworth was never mentioned after his hit/run and there was an offensive lineman that did the same thing that I never heard about until Stallworth killed a man. Jared Allen had a million DUIs. Hell, Dwayne Bowe wore a shirt saying "This is for....." or something like that after the LB killed his girlfriend 2 days earlier.

Posted by MikeT23 on 1/8/2013 8:29:00 AM (view original):Football players seem to get a pass for bad off-field behavior. Rothlisberger gets knobjobs constantly from the announcers as did Vick before he went to ****. Donte Stallworth was never mentioned after his hit/run and there was an offensive lineman that did the same thing that I never heard about until Stallworth killed a man. Jared Allen had a million DUIs. Hell, Dwayne Bowe wore a shirt saying "This is for....." or something like that after the LB killed his girlfriend 2 days earlier.

It isn't just football player, all professional athletes get passes for off field behavior. It is just the on-field stuff that is problematic.

People don't seem to care about purity in football the way they do in baseball. Two Seattle CB's got suspended for PED's, one got off on a technicality, and it got treated the same as if the one guy missed games because of an injury.